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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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« Expériment » en 1823 - à propos d’un néologisme français mort-né
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2014 The English term experiment is conventionally rendered in French by expérience. The latter term, however, when translated back into English, may give either experiment or experience.
Alexandre Métraux
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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William Adams and Early English Enterprise in Japan [PDF]
(Massarella paper): The William Adams story has been told many times, but not completely. This paper corrects matters of fact and revises matters of interpretation.
Anthony Farrington, Derek Massarella
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Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada [PDF]
, 2016 In the mid to late nineteenth century, as English and French settlers were in the process of consolidating their colonial Dominion over vast First Nations’ territories in the form of a Canadian federal state, the government enacted legislation to create ...
Bhandar, Brenna
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The Post-War Novel in Crisis: Three Perspectives [PDF]
, 2005 Three major novelists of the period following the second world war, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul, have pondered the question of why the post-war novel is unable to achieve the heights of its nineteenth-century predecessors. Each of these
Dooley, Gillian Mary
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
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Disability Studies Quarterly, 2019 Obesity seems to have become prevalent in English society in the eighteenth century, likely as a result of changes in the country's diet such as an increasing consumption of sugar.
Whitney Dirks
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2018 This article makes a thorough investigation of the prominent novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817)’s novels, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and Emma, to shed light onto the socio-economic incentives and implications of
Filiz BARIN AKMAN
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